#ALSO I GOT NEW EYELINER TODAY i'm v happy w it even though it was frickin 30$

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childhood anon i know i said part 2 would be fluffy!Binu but i am also trash that has to deliver that in the next part so here we go 

Bin peering out his main door at the apartment next door 

There's been movers all morning and he just wants to see who it is that's taking Eunwoo's room 

Sleeping in Eunwoo's room 

(He wants to know if Eunwoo left his glow-in-the-dark stickers up or if he brought it along with him to wherever he went) 

Smol Rocky popping up in the corner of Bin's eye 

"Hi!! I'm Park Minhyuk!!!!!!" 

Bin blinking at this bean, this smol person the universe sent him to replace his beautiful, smiling, kind Eunwoo 

Rocky beaming at Bin and waiting for him to respond

Only to have Bin turning around and disappearing into his own house 

Rocko staring confusedly and slightly sadly at Bin's door 

When Bin is 8.6 and Rocky is 7.5:

Rocky's mum holding his hand and bringing him over to meet the neighbours 

Rocky bouncing on the balls of his feet because look!! He's going to make a new friend!!!! 

Bin's mum answering the door with a smile and her hand on SuA's hair 

Bin's mum calling out for him to come meet the new neighbour boy !!!! A new friend !! 

Bin trudging to the door because he doesn't want to make friends with anyone who isn't Eunwoo 

Rocky beaming at this grumpy boy because hey, who doesn't want to be friends with this amazing child Park Minhyuk? 

Nobody, that's who 

And so he wiggles over to Bin and reaches up to place his fingers in Bin's forehead and rubbing it in small, soft circles the same way his mum does when she tries to get him to stop crying 

And this is how Bin meets his second best friend, eyes red and sniffling and thinking of Eunwoo 

When Bin's mum tells the story Bin cringes in embarrassment and Rocky howls with laughter because it does seem to be a trend with Bin and his best friends 

When Bin is 9 and Rocky is 7.9:

Rocky: "hyung, I'm scared" 

Bin: "of what? You're the one who made me sign up with you" 

Rocky: "what if I can't dance?" 

Bin, shoving Rocky slightly: 

Rocky, pouting: 

Bin, sighing and rubbing Rocky's forehead because "you can, you idiot, I believe in you" 

Rocky, beaming:

Because that's what you do when you're best friends

You believe in each other 

When Bin is 9.1 and Rocky is 8 and Jinjin is 10.9:

Rocky, rubbing Bin's forehead: "it's just a B, it's fine!! it doesn't even count into your final grade anyway" 

Bin, wailing because he's never gotten a B in his life 

This is the first B since Eunwoo left and he doesn't know how to deal and just ??

What if he gets a C the next time??

What if he fails?????????? 

Bin wailing even louder and Rocko pressing his fingers against Bin's forehead even harder to comfort his friend 

Jinjin, walking into this really weird scene of Rocky having his hand on Bin's forehead and Bin sobbing and clutching a test paper: 

Jinjin:

Jinjin: "uh ok Dance Practice starts in half an hour so if you could clean up??" 

Rocko, glaring because is Bin in any way fit to dance rn? 

Jinjin: 

Jinjin: "ur right ok" 

Jinjin sitting down next to Binnie and telling him about the first time he got a B and how his mum practically disowned him 

Rocko, glaring even harder: 

Jinjin choking and telling Bin that she laughed like less than half a minute later and told him that if that was the response he expected, he was wrong because she's his mother and she'll love him through all his Bs and he should never ever worry about disappointing her because he's already the pride and joy of her life 

Smol Jinjin sniffling and hugging his mum around the waist and never daring to dip below an A again 

Rocky nodding in acceptance

Bin stopping his sniffling and hugging both Rocko and Jinjin

Jinjin casually disentangling himself from Bin's snotty nose and putting on some music so they can start Dance Practice early 

Bin's mum doesn't know about this incident still, but whenever Rocky tells the story of how they became friends with Jinjin Bin cringes in embarrassment and Jinjin howls with laughter 

When Bin is 12.2 and Rocky is 11.1 and Jinjin is 14: 

Bin and Rocky and their junior Chani low-key freaking out over the dance showcase next week 

Jinjin laughing and watching them dance and telling them that "you guys look good, stop worrying, you're always in sync and it's great" 

Three of them practicing every day, every minute, all the way to the showcase 

Jinjin constantly being there for them with water bottles and towels 

Youngbin and Jinjin, jokingly reminding them that they have to do this when it's the seniors' showcase next semester before shoving them backstage 

Rocky and Bin trembling slightly because this is it, this is what they've poured their blood, sweat and tears into for the past two months 

Chani looking at Youngbin and Jinjin with wide, doe eyes shining with apprehension 

Jinjin softening and pressing his fingers against all three foreheads and rubbing them in turn: "you'll do fine, kids. I believe in you." 

Because that's what you do when you're best friends 

You believe in each other 

Bin and Rocky, beaming like the sun at Jinjin when they take a bow from the stage 

When Bin is 16 and Rocky is 14.9 and Jinjin is 17.8: 

Bin sitting Rocky and Jinjin down in his bedroom 

SuA poking her head in to say hi to the boys who've become fixtures in the Moon household over the past 7 years

Rocky and Jinjin joking around and shoving gently at each other and cackling 

Bin swallowing hard and looking down at his hands and quietly asking them for their attention 

Rocky and Jinjin slowing down and peeking at Bin

Bin folding his legs beneath him and nervously picking at his fingernails 

Usually it's Jinjin who's serious and asking them to listen and Rocky is ??? shook? 

Bin, telling them in the softest voice about how he's known, he's always known, even before he met Rocky, that he's always liked boys and that while he's always down for appreciating girls he's never like-liked one and he thinks, he's not entirely sure, but he thinks and he believes that 

He might be gay? 

Jinjin knee-waddling over to Binnie and folding as much of Bin as he can into his arms then letting go pressing his fingers gently against Bin's forehead 

Because it's okay, it really is, Bin

He appreciates the courage it took for Bin to tell them but

Binnie needn't be afraid that Jinjin will love him less because whoever Bin chooses to love, he's still the same Bin who spilled coffee onto Jinjin's homework that one time and Jinjin already couldn't love him less 

Bin snorting and shoving Jinjin with one hand and wiping red eyes with the other 

Rocky silently staring at Bin until Jinjin glares at him 

Rocko shrugging and saying, "I never had to tell you guys I was straight, so I don't see why Bin has to tell me he isn't." 

Bin bursting out in tears because 

He knows they were okay with it, they always were

But hearing them reaffirm it again? 

His heart is warm and full and !!!!!!!!! 

Rocky snuggling up into Binnie's side 

Warm, happy 3stro !!!!!!! 

When Bin is 19.2 and Rocky is 18.1 and Jinjin is 21:

Jinjin already at college and coming back every weekend to spend time with his family & Moonrock 

Binnie stressing out because he still has to pick a college out of those that accepted him and he really isn't sure which one is best for him

(He's already picked, but he likes to pretend that the fact that Youngbin and Jinjin are at that college doesn't weigh in on the decision) 

Rocko getting frustrated at his idiot of a best friend and threatening to burn all his acceptance letters if Bin doesn't pick the one he knows Bin set his heart on the moment Jinjin accepted the offer

He's not saying he didn't set his heart on it then too 

When Binnie is 19.7 and Rocky is 18.6 and Jinjin is 21.5: 

Rocko hammering hard at his midterm exams 

Jinjin helping Bin pack his room up because he's moving to college in a week and his stuff is everywhere and he doesn't really know what to bring that Jinjin doesn't already have 

Bin carefully packing his BTOB & BTS albums and Jinjin rolling up Bin's Jungkook poster 

Bin opening a box under his bed that he hasn't opened in ten years 

A plant encyclopaedia and a somewhat useless magnifying glass 

A small foam sword 

A soft, faded hoodie dotted with suns and moons and stars 

Bin smiling softly and rubbing the hoodie between his fingers and hearing a small crinkling sound

A small, handwritten note Bin’s run his fingers across and folded and unfolded so many times that the paper’s worn and the pencil marks are faded

Bin remembering what Eunwoo wrote, word for word for word, because he read it so many times the day Eunwoo left he can taste on the tip of his tongue Eunwoo’s words the same way he can taste the ache in his heart, as familiar and tear-stained and bittersweet as their kiss

Jinjin breaking in and asking if Bin would like him to take the glow-in-the-dark stars from around the room 

Bin opening his mouth to tell him that no, there's no point bringing because they don't glow anymore

But his fingers are caught on the note, tucked safely in the pocket of the small, kid-sized hoodie and Bin finds himself saying yes, yes he'd like to bring them to university, please 

Jinjin shrugging and making a mental note to buy some new ones for Bin anyway because these ones don't seem to work anymore and there's never having too many glow-in-the-dark stars, right? 

When Bin is 19.7 and Rocky is 18.6 and Jinjin is 21.5 and a few hours later: 

Bin and Jinjin going down to the garden that evening and trying to identify plants using the encyclopaedia Bin found under his bed 

Jinjin, squinting at the book and back up at the plant: "I think that's a Mandevilla??????" 

Bin, softly: "that's a Bougainvillea bush" 

Jinjin, flipping the pages and peering at the page in quickly dimming dusk-light: "huh I think you're right" 

Bin: "and that's why there aren't any apples" 

And when he looks up in confusion, Bin has a funny sort of smile on his face that leaves Jinjin silent

When Bin is 19.8 and Rocky is 18.7 and Jinjin is 21.6: 

Binnie shifting into his room in the freshman dorm in his college and Jinjin and his roommate helping out 

MJ's delightful and from the stories Bin's heard about him, which are numerous in number because Jinjin will literally Never Shut Up about MJ, he's dumb and funny and will essentially complete 4stro when Rocky moves in the year after

Bin’s roommate shifting in just when MJ places the last star on the wall 

And Binnie yelping in surprise because look!! It’s Youngbin!! 

Except it isn’t, because Youngbin’s just helping his cousin Taeyang move in 

Everyone laughing because look at this room, with a Moon Bin and a Taeyang and Binnie already decorating his half of the room with glow-in-the-dark stars and Taeyang pulling out another pack

Youngbin, laughing: “it’s practically a solar system in here”

Bin, smiling and agreeing because that’s how it’s always been, he’s always been Space Boy 

It’s just now, after finding the box that he, for some reason, has brought along and tucked under his new bed, that he suddenly remembers he’s missing his Flower Prince

When Bin is 20.2 and Rocky is 19.1 and Jinjin is 22 and MJ is 24.1:

Rocko with his head bent over books some miles away, slaving away at final exams 

Bin and Jinjin and MJ with their heads bent over books at a small, cosy cafe and slaving away at midterms 

Bin looking up from his essay and stretching and yawning like a big cat and grabbing a sip of his now-cold coffee

Bin glancing out the floor-to-ceiling windows

And it’s a flash, it’s only a split-second glance, but Bin swears he’s dreamt of that face before 

He’s dreamt of those big eyes and long lashes and that gentle, kind smile before, he knows it, and for some reason his heart starts aching in ways he thought he’d forgotten

Bin bursting out of the cafe, looking left and right on a busy street, crowded with students flushing from one class to the next 

But it’s gone, the face is gone and its look is slowly slipping from Bin’s memory like cubed ice on warm palms 

And when he returns to his seat by the window with MJ and Jinjin peering concernedly at him, he smiles weakly 

And tells them a story about a Space Boy and his Flower Prince

i swear part 3 will come tomorrow and there will be a messy baby Sanha